{"id":122699,"date":"2025-09-08T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:49:06","slug":"warminster-toad-patrol-urge-people-to-avoid-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122699\/","title":{"rendered":"Warminster Toad Patrol urge people to avoid road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year, Smallbrook Road <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz7erzyzx9xo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was closed via a Traffic Regulatory Order<\/a> (TRO) to protect adult toads during the migratory season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During this period, Warminster Toad Patrol volunteers took nightly shifts to observe the animals and keep them safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms James said: &#8220;We did so much patrolling in Spring to save the toadlets&#8217; parents and get them to their mating ponds. And now, they&#8217;re being annihilated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are very few motorists using Smallbrook Road, but it takes just a few cars to cause a lot of toad deaths. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is an alternative route through the main street, it would be great if people could use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, Smallbrook Road was closed via a Traffic Regulatory Order (TRO) to protect adult toads during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-122699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}